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# Incubator PMC report for October 2025

The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.

As of September, there are 30 podlings under incubation. Three releases 
were made during the month, and one IP clearance was completed. Several new 
project ideas and early proposals were discussed on the general list, with 
them seeking mentors and guidance for next steps. A new proposal, EasyXL, 
was discussed and is in the process of identifying mentors. No podlings 
retired during the month, and three new people joined the IPMC.

Mailing-list traffic in September covered regular Incubator business, 
including new proposals, release votes, graduation-readiness discussions, 
and mentor engagement, alongside two experiments aimed at improving 
visibility into podling health.

The first, an optional checkpoint, provides a lightweight review 
approximately six months after incubation, utilising a pre-filled template 
based on signals such as contributors, pull requests, releases, and mailing 
list activity. Mentors add context and adjustments with the aim of support 
rather than evaluation.

The second is a monthly health-metrics prototype that analyses public data 
over 3, 6, and 12-month windows to highlight trends within each podling. 
Draft health reports were generated for all podlings to validate the 
approach. The intent here is to help with podling reporting.

A mentor engagement analysis revealed a significant correlation between 
active, multi-mentor participation and successful graduation outcomes. It 
concluded that podlings with three mentors and consistent sign-offs are 
significantly more likely to graduate, reinforcing the importance of 
maintaining multiple active mentors throughout the incubation period.

Some analysis was conducted on graduation/retirement times. It was noted 
that projects that eventually retire spend almost twice as long in 
incubation as those that graduate. The majority of projects graduate within 
one to two years.

The graduation of Wayang was discussed, with a conversation highlighting 
some branding/vendor considerations to address before proceeding with any 
formal graduation proposal.

Work also continued on new training and onboarding materials. A new 
Training & Onboarding section was added to the Incubator website to 
consolidate resources by role and material type. New content includes: 
Mentor Onboarding slide deck, Incubator Case Studies collection, and PPMC & 
Committer onboarding guides.

A small number of reminders were sent to mentors regarding missing 
sign-offs for the previous month. Most podlings continue to make progress 
toward graduation, and the IPMC will continue to monitor long-running or 
low-activity podlings and provide additional guidance where appropriate. 
Livy is back on track with graduation, but there's been no response from 
Toree.

3 podlings did not report and will be asked to report next month. One 
report, ResilientDB, was submitted without a mentor sign-off. A couple of 
podlings were contacted about the quality of their reports this month and 
were pointed to the new reporting guide. 

## Community

### New IPMC members:
  -  Karanjeet Singh
  - Alin Jerpelea 
  - Jarek Potiuk

### People who left the IPMC:
  - none

## New Podlings
  - Fesod

## Podlings that failed to report, expected next month
  - HugeGraph
  - Pegasus
  - PonyMail

## Graduations
  - DevLake

  The board has motions for the following:

  - None

## Releases

  The following releases entered distribution during the month of
  September:
  - Amoro 0.8.1
  - Pekko Persistence 1.1.0
  - Polaris 1.1.0

## IP Clearance
  - Druid Operator

## Legal / Trademarks
  - N/A

## Infrastructure
 - N/A

## Table of Contents  
[Amoro](#amoro)  
[Fesod](#fesod)  
[Fluss](#fluss)  
[Gluten](#gluten)  
[Livy](#livy)   
[ResilientDB](#resilientdb)  

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## Amoro

Amoro is a Lakehouse management system built on open data lake formats like
Apache Iceberg and Apache Paimon.

Amoro has been incubating since 2024-03-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Polish our website and document.
  2. Release more versions under ASF.
  3. Build and grow a community.

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  Currently no.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  * Added 2 new Committers
  * Added 6 new contributors
  * Github stars reached ~1.1K

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  * Released Amoro 0.8.1-incubatiing
  * Merged 68 PRs

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-09-11, released Amoro 0.8.1-incubatiing

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  * 2025-08-22, committer:Nico CHen(GitHub ID: nicochen)
  * 2025-09-25, committer:Zhuojun Jiang(GitHub ID: Jzjsnow)

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive? 

  Yes, Amoro's mentors actively participate in the project, contribute 
  insights, and help advance the project towards graduation.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (amoro) Justn Mclean  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Zhongyi Tan  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (amoro) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see new release produced and new committers joining. 
     The community is developing in a good shape.
  - [ ] (amoro) Xinyu Zhou  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (amoro) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Fesod

Fesod is a high-performance and memory-efficient Java library for reading
and writing Excel files, designed to simplify development and ensure 
reliability.

Fesod has been incubating since 2025-09-17.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating: 
 	

  1. Ensure that the website and codebase are fully compliant with ASF 
  policies.
  2. Publish the first release under the Apache Incubator.
  3. Continue to grow the community and work towards the ASF Maturity 
  Model.  

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  No.

### How has the community developed since the last report?  

  The project is still in the preparation phase, but we have welcomed 
  several new code contributors. 

  In addition to the required code migration and compliance work, 
  development of new features is also progressing. 

### How has the project developed since the last report? 

  The community is actively working on the first release (v2.0.0) under the 
  Apache Incubator, which is currently planned for December.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [X] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other: 

  We are still in the process of initial setup. The GitHub repository and 
  project website have been migrated to the Apache organization. 

  The community is also planning to set up CI/CD pipelines to streamline 
  future development and deployment. 

### Date of last release:
  N/A

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?
  N/A

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes.
  They remain actively engaged with the project and continue to provide 
  valuable input to guide its progress.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (fesod) tison  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (fesod) Dave Fisher  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fesod) Huajie Wang  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fesod) PJ Fanning  
     Comments: Rapid progress with initial tasks   

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Fluss

Fluss is a streaming storage built for real-time analytics which can serve
as the real-time data layer for Lakehouse architectures.

Fluss has been incubating since 2025-06-04.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Publish the first release under the ASF incubator
  2. Grow the community and attract more committers, contributors and users.
  3. Fill out the maturity model

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  Fluss plans to release its first version (v0.8) under ASF incubator in 
  October and will need IPMC assistance, including validation and voting.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  - Add 2 new committers, currently with total 15 committers.
  - The Fluss PPMC created a [LinkedIn page]
  (https://www.linkedin.com/company/apachefluss/), which has 625 
  followers within ~3 months, all organic growth.
  - [Regular Monthly Community Call]
  (https://docs.google.com/document/d/18b7G_dvYx-1FogV7LWEFMHXze5D5T9XZ3h
  9zSU75dDA/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.9aenn0fakn4l) for July, Aug, Sept.
  - Jark Wu presented Fluss at CommunityOverCode Asia 2025 on July 26th.
  - Jark Wu and Giannis Polyzos are going to Flink Forward Barcelona 2025 
to present Fluss on October 15th.
  - Leonard Xu is going to QCon Shanghai to represent Fluss on October 24th.
  - Giannis Polyzos is going to Big Data Europe to present Fluss on 
November 19-21.
  - Fluss participated #hacktoberfest2025

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  We have completed the full migration of the website and codebase from 
  Alibaba to Apache.

  Additionally, we’ve finalized development of Fluss v0.8 which was started 
  since the project entered ASF incubator.

  This version introduces Streaming Lakehouse support with Apache Iceberg 
  and Lance. Now, all streaming events written to Fluss are automatically 
  converted into either Iceberg or Lance format in real-time, enabling 
  seamless lakehouse integration.

  Besides, since introducing the Fluss Improvement Proposal (FIP) process 
  in July, we have already created 17 FIPs, many of which have been approved 
  and implemented.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [ ] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  N/A

  We released fluss-shaded-1.0-incubating in August, but this is not 
  considered an official Fluss release, as it is a shaded utility module 
  rather than part of the core Fluss system. The community is working on the 
  official release of Fluss core (v0.8).

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected? 
  2025-07-29

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?
  Yes

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?
  N/A

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (fluss) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  Good "start" for the podling, growing the community already 
     happens. I'm looking for the first Apache release.
  - [X] (fluss) Becket Qin  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fluss) Yu Li  
     Comments: Good to see new committers joining and rich community 
     activities. Looking forward to the first apache release.
  - [ ] (fluss) Jingsong Lee  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (fluss) Zili Chen  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Gluten

Gluten is a middle layer responsible for offloading JVM-based SQL engines'
execution to native engines.

Gluten has been incubating since 2024-01-11.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. 5th Apache Release for Gluten v1.5.0
  2. Community Growth
  3. Ready for Apache TLP graduation.  

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  N/A

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  - The number of fork is from 552 to 583.
  - The number of star is from 1379 to 1451.
  - The number of contributors is from 170 to 174.
  - Regular Monthly Meeting Minutes(Oct.): 
  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g-veyoNB1QYFJY4-TMdewAq8wMkQqltbEt46CPxB
  rfE/edit?usp=sharing

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  - Gluten 1.5.0 is on the way as 5th Apache release.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [ ] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-06-19

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  2025-05-26 for vote result published

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes, they continue to play an active role in the project, offering 
  helpful contributions such as reminders about the release timeline and 
  thoughtful perspectives on the community’s overall well-being.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  Yes, everything is fine.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [X] (gluten) Yu Li  
     Comments: The community keeps developing and I believe we are on a 
     good way towards graduation.
  - [ ] (gluten) Wenli Zhang  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Kent Yao  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Shaofeng Shi  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (gluten) Felix Cheung  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## Livy

Livy is web service that exposes a REST interface for managing long running
Apache Spark contexts in your cluster. With Livy, new applications can be
built on top of Apache Spark that require fine grained interaction with 
many Spark contexts.

Livy has been incubating since 2017-06-05.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1. Revitalization of the Community
  2. Dependable Release Cadence
  3. Keep the project up to date with security fixes and in terms of Spark 
  support

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of?

  None at this time. There was a ping of the PPMC to make sure there were 
  enough folks monitoring the pivate@ list which resulted in 5 +1's and a 
  couple 0's.

### How has the community developed since the last report?

  We have received PRs and merged the upgrade to Spark 3.5.

### How has the project developed since the last report?

  The PR to support for the latest Spark 3.5.x has been merged. A new PR is 
  raised to support JDK17. We are preparing a new version that we may need 
  help with.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [ ] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2023-10-10

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?

  October 2023

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  Yes.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  No answer

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (livy) Bikas Saha  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Luciano Resende  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (livy) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  I think we should move forward on a discussion about 
     graduation.
  - [ ] (livy) Madhawa Kasun Gunasekara  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (livy) Larry McCay  
     Comments:  
  - [X] (livy) Gyorgy Gal  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes:

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## ResilientDB

ResilientDB is a distributed blockchain framework that is open-source,
lightweight, modular, and highly performant.

ResilientDB has been incubating since 2023-10-21.

### Three most important unfinished issues to address before graduating:

  1.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on 
  ResDB. 
  2.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on 
  ResDB.  
  3.  Grow the community by facilitating more applications being built on 
  ResDB.    

### Are there any issues that the IPMC or ASF Board need to be aware of? 
  No

### How has the community developed since the last report? 
  Regular meeting continues every week.

### How has the project developed since the last report? 

  We have released a new release 
  [1.11.0](https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/resilientdb/1.
  11.0/) to publish new applications built on top of ResilientDB core 
  platform.

### How would you assess the podling's maturity?
  Please feel free to add your own commentary.

  - [ ] Initial setup
  - [X] Working towards first release
  - [X] Community building
  - [X] Nearing graduation
  - [ ] Other:

### Date of last release:

  2025-10-06

### When were the last committers or PPMC members elected?   
  Bismanpal Singh and Harish Krishnakumar have become our PPMCs in 2025-07

### Have your mentors been helpful and responsive?

  The mentors helped tremendously throughout the project build-up and 
  transfer.

### Is the PPMC managing the podling's brand / trademarks?

  There are no known brand and naming issues as reported here.

### Signed-off-by:

  - [ ] (resilientdb) Junping Du  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Kevin Ratnasekera  
     Comments:  
  - [ ] (resilientdb) Jean-Baptiste Onofré  
     Comments:  

### IPMC/Shepherd notes: